Where does “aivovienti” come from?

aivovienti (Finnish) comes from Finnish vienti, from Finnish -nti, from Finnish -nta, from Proto-Finnic -nta — Forms action nouns from verbs.

aivovienti (Finnish): brain drain

Definitions

  1. brain drain

Ancestry of “aivovienti”, step by step

aivovienti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vienti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvientiexport
2Finnish-ntiForm action nouns from verbs whose first...
3Finnish-ntaForms nouns that describe an action; "erota...
4Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs

via Finnish aivot

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaivotbrain
2Proto-Finnicaivobrain
3Proto-Uralicajŋebrain
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -nti →Every word from Finnish vienti →